June 2008

HTC Touch Diamond: Cure for iPhone Envy?

While I was out at TechEd last week, the new 3G iPhone was announced. From the previous announcement, we knew it’ll have EAS support. While many await the new EAS-capable, 3G iPhone, and yet many debate on whether it’ll make inroads in the enterprise, there’s something else on the horizon that’s quickly becoming the object […]

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Starting Task Manager in RDP or VM sessions

You have a RDP (Terminal Services) session or a Virtual Machine session open, where the CTRL-ALT-DEL key combination fires up the Windows Logn/Security dialog on the host computer rather than the RDP or VM session you have open. Getting to the Task Manager involves some mouse-clicks in such situations— Start -> Windows Security -> Task […]

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Released: Exchange Management Shell | Powershell on Steroids

The first of the three free web chapters of “Exchange Server 2007: The Complete Reference” was released last week on the book’s companion web site. I also found out about the numerous electronic editions of the book— yes, the Acrobat eBook, MobiPocket Reader, Microsoft Reader and Kindle editions are now available! Thanks to all of […]

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Quick antispam report or status check?

Having received an annoyingly higher proportion of spam in my Inbox this morning, I wanted to quickly check what the antispam agents are doing. Here’s a quick cmdlet (besides the ones to check whether the antispam agents are enabled, checking the Content Filter SCL thresholds, etc.). Get-AgentLog -StartDate “6/16/2008” | group action | ft name,count […]

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What is an Azalia controller?

Last night I got my Media Center PC back from repairs with a brand new motherboard, new hard drives, and a new TV tuner. Yes, that’s almost like a new computer— one of those rare occasions when I’ve bought extended warranty for a computer and actually found it worthwhile. After installing Windows Vista I tried […]

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Updated: Mailbox Server Role Storage Calculator v14.7

An updated version of the Mailbox Server Role Storage Calculator (let’s just call it Storage Calculator or StorageCalc? :) has been released. More details about v14.7 in Ross’ post on the team blog: Updates to the Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator.

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Announced: Plug-in for Exchange backups on Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2008’s new Windows Server Backup utility, the replacement for NTBackup, doesn’t do Exchange backups out of the box. I’m in Scott Schnoll’s session where he just announced a new Microsoft plug-in that will do Exchange VSS backups. The tool will be released this summer. More notes from this excellent session soon!

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Book Signing at TechEd: Exchange Server 2007 The Complete Reference

Exchange Server 2007: The Complete Reference started shipping recently. (OK, it’s been a few weeks, so I’m stretching the definition of the word “recently” to cover up for the fact that I didn’t post about this sooner…) As Exchange MVP and coauthor Richard Luckett puts it, “Writing a book, sustaining a career, and spending precious […]

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TechEd IT Pro: A major Exchange announcement in Scott’s session?

Scott Schnoll is presenting two sessions at TechEd this week:1. Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1: Tips & Tricks:When: Wednesday, June 11 2:45 PM – 4:00 PMWhere: N220 D What: This session provides an overview of how to gather diagnostic and troubleshooting information for Exchange Server 2007 focused on performance, connectivity, and services, as well as […]

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Exchangepedia: A search hack

Playing with custom error pages early this a.m., and here’s a way to search Exchangepedia. Go to the search page – http://exchangepedia.com/search.aspx, ignore the “this page couldn’t be found” error, and use the search. Note: Sorry, it doesn’t seem to work as a link. You will need to type the URL manually: exchangepedia.com/search.aspx Yes, not […]

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